Ask YC: Learning circuit/hardware; lab book?

Re:Ask YC: Learning circuit/hardware; lab book? by bprater on Saturday March 29, 2008 @12:08PM (#149473)

You may want to get started by jumping into the BasicStamp world. The advantage is that it is programmable, so it's be straightforward for you to make it "do stuff".

Get it with the development board and you can make LEDs blink, drive a LCD panel, etc. Grab a high-level book on robotics and bam! it'll quickly click how all this fits together.

It's high-level way to start, but a great way to dive into the hardware world without worrying too much about hardcore hardware stuff. (Which, as a fellow software hacker, is pretty boring! I want stuff I can code!)

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Re:Ask YC: Learning circuit/hardware; lab book? by Emmjaykay on Saturday March 29, 2008 @05:14PM (#149664)

I've seen the BoeBot and it is quite adorable. I was wanting to put my software skills to a real test, though and I don't know if there is enough space on a BasicStamp chip. But it does seem like a good place to start! Even, still, I need to be aware of how components come together if I want to do something fancy on the bread board (don't want to short stuff out,e tc).

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